Kevin Ward, Jr., was wearing a HANS at the time of his death. Why didn't someone tell him that it did not offer protection against getting hit by a sprint car.
Maybe if we all wore inflatable bubbles...
Kevin Ward, Jr., was wearing a HANS at the time of his death. Why didn't someone tell him that it did not offer protection against getting hit by a sprint car.
Maybe if we all wore inflatable bubbles...
But the evidence for basilar skull fractures is too overwhelming to allow racing without HANS any more. .
I was at a 4 mile road racing course this past weekend with the event being put on by a race org. that's been around for 50 years. No head and neck restraint required. Recomended, but not required.
Johnny, I would indeed feel like shit. And notice that I place more blame on orginizers than I do Tony. However, Tony should know better, and yet he has been one of the biggest offenders of bad character demonstrations.
Tell you who knew that was going to happen? I guess I can't Johnny, except for me. I would have told you that odds are soemthing like that would happen. But I accept your characterization that the majority of racers are incapable of predicting something like this happening. Ok then, but don't complain when the organizers treat us like brain dead toddlers. I guess if you were in charge and saw a competitor jumping out of a good race car for the first time and approach cars angrily to yell at the driver, you would continue to allow that until someone was killed. I guess that I had hoped that we were smarter than that and could actually envision circimstance before actually having to live through them everytime.
The Millions of people sitting at home watching this, I know said, "there should be a rule against this", right ??
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=eiDT6_411w0
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Kevin Ward, Jr., was wearing a HANS at the time of his death. Why didn't someone tell him that it did not offer protection against getting hit by a sprint car.
Maybe if we all wore inflatable bubbles...
Yeah, that was my point S.A. , that is what I am trying to say. That we all need to be guaranteed safety at all times and that racing shouldn't be dangerous. Maybe if we didn't walk around with our head up our asses we would be able to see oncoming dangers too.
I was at a 4 mile road racing course this past weekend with the event being put on by a race org. that's been around for 50 years. No head and neck restraint required. Recomended, but not required.
Bad move on their part IMO Bench. Like saying helmets are reccomended but not required.
Interesting read, July 10, 2014 North Carolina article.
Have you ever been hurt and someone told you that you deserved it? That might have been an insult on top of your injury, but it’s a feeling you ought to acquaint yourself with if you feel you have a legal case against someone but your injury was partly your fault. In North Carolina, even if you were a little bit at fault, your case can be dismissed. Courts in the Tar Heel State do not apportion blame between victims who are partly at fault and those who injure them, who are mostly at fault.
North Carolina is one of the few states in the United States that still employs a doctrine known as pure contributory negligence. In many personal injury cases, it makes or breaks the case. If you admit you were to blame, in part, for your injury, many North Carolina lawyers won’t take your case.
Jamz14,
Unless I overlooked it, you failed to place some of the blame on those most responsible for teaching their child to not do stupid things, the parents. In today's society it appears that we want to blame everyone but the parents for what their children do. Organizations shouldn't have to mandate that drivers don't get out of their cars while the track is live, that is just common sense. We teach our children not to go out and play on a busy highway. You would think that sometimes during the 15 years that Kevin Ward was racing you would have thought that he was taught that it was a stupid thing to get out of his car on a hot track and challenge cars not to hit him.
Pat
I just saw a video that showed the kid did not get run over but grabbed the wing and was eventually thrown to the ground
I just saw a video that showed the kid did not get run over but grabbed the wing and was eventually thrown to the ground
And the video address would be where???
Never mind Pat, I Googled the video. Interesting what's said and shown.
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Yeah, that was my point S.A. , that is what I am trying to say. That we all need to be guaranteed safety at all times and that racing shouldn't be dangerous. Maybe if we didn't walk around with our head up our asses we would be able to see oncoming dangers too.
You'd be better off referring to "SA" as Mr. Goddammit or Mr. Omygosh.
In a way the waiver we all sign offers some form of protection. Protection against crazy acts like someone running onto a race track. I have a hard time looking past the decision to run onto the race track as the single largest factor in this and I don't see that Tony tried to hurt him.
It is interesting talking to my friends and family about this incident. The 'racers' in my focus group side predominately with exonerating Tony of blame while the non-racers are very much on the other side of the fence. It will be interesting should this incident go to a trial in terms of the jury make up. The deck is stacked on this one for sure if it goes that far.
Mark
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Come on you guys how can you blame parents? It takes a village to raise a child.
Ron
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I'm sorry, but my son does some dumb ass things, and I am not taking responsibly for it. He makes his Own mistakes.Jamz14,
Unless I overlooked it, you failed to place some of the blame on those most responsible for teaching their child to not do stupid things, the parents. In today's society it appears that we want to blame everyone but the parents for what their children do. Organizations shouldn't have to mandate that drivers don't get out of their cars while the track is live, that is just common sense. We teach our children not to go out and play on a busy highway. You would think that sometimes during the 15 years that Kevin Ward was racing you would have thought that he was taught that it was a stupid thing to get out of his car on a hot track and challenge cars not to hit him.
Pat
Frank
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It's a BIG leap to say NASCAR is culpable for this accident, and then just a short hop to say all motorsports are guilty. I seen plenty of bad driver behavior in all forms of racing, including club racing. (meanwhile USAC is saying "WTF did I do, I wasn't even there.")
Unfortunately NASCAR will still pay a price for this tragedy. Sponsors were already iffy (e.g. the National Guard), now they are really going to think twice before sinking millions into something that may not represent them well. Tony Stewart's career may be over because of sponsors disassociating themselves.
And I sure the counselors in the audience can see that the Ward family is already ramping up for the civil suit.
Sacre Bleu indeed !
Ok then, but don't complain when the organizers treat us like brain dead toddlers.
Isn't that exactly what you are saying you want, for them to treat us like brain dead toddlers. I know I shouldn't get out of my car on a hot race track. I don't need someone else telling me that. If I do and if I pay the ultimate price, it's my fault not someone else's.
Isn't that exactly what you are saying you want, for them to treat us like brain dead toddlers. I know I shouldn't get out of my car on a hot race track. I don't need someone else telling me that. If I do and if I pay the ultimate price, it's my fault not someone else's.
Here, Here!
But me thinks jamzer is mossly complaining about the example that has been set watching Tony and others throwing helmets at passing cars after an on track incident or guys fist fighting on pit road.
It is entertaining, maybe thats why Jerry Springer is still on TV after all these years and hookers later!
it is also so very unfortunate that it has excalated and ended in the death of a young man.
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My guess is had it been just some local driver who hit Kevin ward NASCAR would not have responded.
Bingo.
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